Industrial Facility and Ole Scheeren

工业设施和奥雷舍人

Monocle on Design

艺术

2024-08-27

29 分钟
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German architect Ole Scheeren joins us in the studio, and we discuss the importance of simplicity and utility in design with London-based studio Industrial Facility. Plus: the last instalment of our summer series.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.

  • I'm Nick Monies.

  • On today's program, we speak to German architect Ole Sheeran and industrial facility talk about simplicity and utility.

  • Plus the last installment of our summer series, all that coming up on Monocle On Design.

  • Sam Hecht and Kim Collin founded London based Studio industrial facility in 2002.

  • Kim trained as an architect and Sam as an industrial designer.

  • Together they create beauty out of utility with projects including a portable power box for furniture giant Herman Miller, a smart dining chair for Denmark's Takt, and a colour palette for paint brand Bleo.

  • To find out more about this diverse range of work, I caught up with the duo in Milan earlier this year.

  • We hear from Kim Colin first, At.

  • The time that we formed, product design was very influenced by the new technology of computers being able to draw and model objects in white floating space.

  • So suddenly we had a lot of products designed without any context at all because the technology could allow you to.

  • And we said, wait a second, we have history.

  • We have not only design history, but cultural histories.

  • Those all seem to be erased by that white space.

  • Our discussion was really about how much was missing and we formed our office to try to have a point of view about that.

  • So, I mean, tell me a little bit about that role that tech played in shaping it.

  • Almost sounds like you went against it.

  • Is that a fair assumption, Sam?

  • Yeah, it is.

  • One of the very earliest clients that we had was Muji in Japan more than 20 years ago.